Emims. The Emims are described in Deut. 2: 10, 11: "The Emims dwelt therein in

times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims, which also were accounted

giants, as the Anakims."

Zamzummims are mentioned in Deut. 2: 20, and these too were "giants". It is

important to realize that the word "giants" here is the word "Rephaim"--the Emims were

also accounted Rephaim. In the A.V. the words are used interchangeably. In Josh 15: 8

we read of the "valley of the giants"; in 17: 15 of the "land of the Perrizites and of the

giants"; and in I Chron. 11: 15 and 14: 9 the same word is found in the expression,

"the valley of the Rephaim". In I Chron. 20: 4, 6 and 8, we read of "giants" or

"Rephaim" born in Gath, the birthplace of Goliath, whose brother also was a giant (see

verse 5). One of these Rephaim had four and twenty fingers and toes, six on each hand

and six on each foot, a living symbol of the beast of Rev. 13:

The earth shall cast out the dead.--Here the word "dead" is the same as the word

"deceased", namely, "the giants" or "the Rephaim". They shall not rise, but they are cast

out of the earth. What does that mean? The word translated "cast out" is naphal, and is

the causative, "cause to fall" as in Gen. 2: 21. "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep

to fall upon Adam."

This word naphal gives a name to another race of Giants who come into record of

Scripture in Gen. 6: 4, where they are called "the giants". They appear again in

Numb. 13: 33, and are there also called, "the sons of Anak". In the days of Noah no

provision was made for the salvation of one of this seed of the wicked one, so serious in

the eyes of the Lord was this awful intermingling. In the days of Israel no command was

given concerning the Canaanite except that of extermination, and according to Isa. 26:

they are dead and done with, never to awake, arise or live again.

The Lord plainly tells us that the "tares" sown by the wicked one are not evil

doctrines, but the "children of the wicked one". These are bound in bundles and burned

before the children of the kingdom shine forth in glory. Did the Lord use a true figure

when He spoke of the tares, if the purpose of God is that these "tares" or "children of the

wicked one" are to come forth from the lake of fire the redeemed of the Lord? Surely

such a mighty doctrine would not be left to hang upon poor human inferences, and we

accordingly reject it as being as much a lie as the words, "Ye shall not surely die", uttered

in Gen. 3: 4.

As every word in this battle for the truth is of consequence, and as even an

unintentional omission may be misconstrued, we must consider one more expression,

viz., "They shall not rise". Does this mean resurrection? Job uses the word in 14: 12

with very definite reference to resurrection: "Man lieth down, and riseth not: till the

heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised from out of their sleep." The

word is the Hebrew qum, which is found in the Aramaic form in Mark 5: 41: "And He

took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi: which is, being interpreted,

Damsel, I say unto thee, arise."